Help Me See Inc.

“The form 990 was reviewed by the chairman/treasurer and president and ceo and approved by the same. For this year, the ceo (jacob mohan thazhatu) will sign the form 990 and mengfang madge bian will sign as custodian of the books. The form 990 was discussed by the board and approved through appropriate resolution before being filed with the irs.”

“The board of helpmesee reviews the conflict of interest policy and signs the form annually.”

“The chairman/treasurer in consultation with the board and with independent external input and auditors determines the compensation of the president, ceo and key employees.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Helpmesee is organized and operated exclusively for the charitable and educational purpose of eliminating cataract blindness worldwide. Specifically, helpmesee is working to develop, standardize, and deliver high-quality training in manual small incision cataract surgery. To accomplish this goal, helpmesee provides technical and financial support for the research and development of practices to deliver high volume cataract surgeries with quality visual outcomes for patients in the developing world. According to recent estimates by the world health organization, in addition to over 20 million blind as estimated 120 million suffer from severe visual impairment due to cataract. In developing countries, blindness and visual impairment can have an enormous negative impact on quality of life as well as reducing life expectancy and economic productivity. According to a published rand corporation study published in 2012, the number of cases of cataract blindness will increase to 32 million by 2020, not counting visually impaired, and cost the world's gdp about $1 trillion each year. Most of them though will never receive this surgery and remain blind because of the severe shortage of trained proficient cataract specialists, the unaffordable cost of surgery and the high incidence in remote communities with no access to treatment. Fortunately, a solution exists. The millions who remain blind from untreated cataract could have their sight restored thanks to a surgery that takes as little as 5 minutes for an adult and 15 minutes for a child. Helpmesee's goal is to train 30,000 cataract specialists so every community of 250,000 has access to well-trained specialists who deliver low cost, high quality manual small incision cataract surgery (msics) to millions of adults and children throughout the developing world. Such a massive training effort can only be accomplished using innovative training systems. Helpmesee is using many of the same training methods successfully employed in the training of airline pilots, namely high fidelity simulators and sophisticated courseware. Simulators allow specialists to be trained to proficiency on a reduced timeline and without endangering patients as they learn and practice all aspects of the msics procedure. The helpmesee campaign operations and network have achieved quality and scale to deliver very low-cost, high-quality msics to adults and children in the developing world. As of september 2016, working with 265 practicing partner specialists in china, india, nepal, sierra leone, togo, viet nam, myanmar, madagascar and the gambia. Helpmesee has completed over 249,000 sight restoring surgeries. Building on this momentum of success, helpmesee plans to continue to expand training of highly skilled cataract surgeons and their deployment across africa, asia and latin america. In india, by building strong partnerships with hospitals and the local government, helpmesee has helped to end the cataract surgical backlog in five districts: chitrakoot, hamirpur banda, satna and panna in uttar pradesh, and madhya pradesh. It has arranged and subsidized around 75,000 surgeries to achieve this milestone. Helpmesee has developed an android-based smartphone app-the reach app, which helps health workers locate patients for cataract screening. In addition, helpmesee is developing pre-sterilized, single-use surgical kits to reduce infection caused by contaminated instruments. Through helpmesee's cloud-based patient monitoring system, helpmesee is able to monitor patient outcomes and cataract specialist performance.”

“Foreign exchange loss -66,024.”

“During 2015, helpmesee generated $20,104,580 in revenue and support and spent $21,053,209 in total expenses, resulting in a $948,629 decrease in net assets as of december 31, 2015. In 2015, helpmesee partnered with helpage india to eliminate cataract blindness in india. The campaign raised $285,658 during 2015. The al ueltschi foundation continues to support helpmesee through unrestricted grants. Additionally, helpmesee received $2,677,340 from individual donors in 2015. Helpmesee's campaign (program) expenses ratio in 2015 is 68%. The management and general expenses ratio is 8% and fundraising expenses ratio is 24% respectively.”